The taxi driver handed over €300 in change before he ever saw the note it was for. Everything else, the tear gas, the two wallets, the empty road to Koper, is just the consequence of that one moment.
The report is negative on everything. That is exactly why it will end nothing: those who launched the accusation do not read it as a document, but as a glass of juice with a stamp on it.
Same agency story, same Monday: one wire report has one dead in a landslide in Chiba, the other has one person lightly injured and nine damaged houses.
On Sunday, Princess Diana's brother repeated to the BBC that Prince Charles told him after her death that she would soon be forgotten. Buckingham Palace did not reject the claim. It said only that grief can cloud memory. The book comes out on Tuesday.
DARS, the state motorway company, has collected all four green lights for section speed control, but by its own explanation the system will not measure while roadworks are under way.